When I was young the silk
of my mind
hard as a peony head
unfurled
and wind bloomed the parachute:
The air-head tugged me
up,
tore my roots loose and drove
high, so high
I want to touch down now
and taste the ground
I want to take in
my silk
and ask where I am
before it is too late to know
A few random poems:
- Verses Turned… poem – John Betjeman poems
- Vacation by Rita Dove
- Альфред Теннисон – Странствия Мальдуна
- Иван Барков – Вопрос без ответу
- On The High Price Of Fish by William Cowper
- Act of Union by Seamus Heaney
- When The Green Lies Over The Earth poem – Angelina Weld Grimke poems | Poems and Poetry
- Владимир Высоцкий – Песня о вещем Олеге
- Since you asked by Radames Antonio Cruz
- What Hidden Sweetness Is There by Jalal ad-Din Muhammad Rumi
- Occasioned By The Battle Of Waterloo February 1816 by William Wordsworth
- Шекспир – Ты утоляешь мой голодный взор – Сонет 75
- Robert Burns: Jerusalem Tavern, Dumfries.: Inscription On A Goblet
- The Distress’d Travellers; or, Labour in Vain by William Cowper
- The Bard by Thomas Gray
External links
Bat’s Poetry Page – more poetry by Fledermaus
Talking Writing Monster’s Page –
Batty Writing – the bat’s idle chatter, thoughts, ideas and observations, all original, all fresh
Poems in English
- Hope And Riders
- Do I
- Communal War
- Blank Dreams
- Before
- Again
- A Voice
- A Toast To Nations
- What Of The Night
- Vows
- To Morrow
- The Winged Mariners
- The Watchman
- The Virgin Martyr
- The Vain Question
- The Soldiers Grave
- The Silence In The Church
- The Season
- The Resting Place
- The Old Manor House
More external links (open in a new tab):
Doska or the Board – write anything
Search engines:
Yandex – the best search engine for searches in Russian (and the best overall image search engine, in any language, anywhere)
Qwant – the best search engine for searches in French, German as well as Romance and Germanic languages.
Ecosia – a search engine that supposedly… plants trees
Duckduckgo – the real alternative and a search engine that actually works. Without much censorship or partisan politics.
Yahoo– yes, it’s still around, amazingly, miraculously, incredibly, but now it seems to be powered by Bing.
Parallel Translations of Poetry
The Poetry Repository – an online library of poems, poetry, verse and poetic works
Archie Randolph Ammons (1926-2001) was an important American poet, a modern classic, Ammons wrote about our relationship to nature in a way that is both comic and solemn. His poems often address religious and philosophical matters and scenes involving nature in a manner that is almost transcendental.